Headquartered in Seattle and Barcelona, we're a values driven, fast-growing tech company focused on building safe and personalized experiences tailored to the needs of each unique pet. We're investing in AI as a business accelerator and provide every team member access to AI tools in service of creating better experiences for our community.

We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington's Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. Meet the Site Reliability and Production Support Team

The SRE and Support team is responsible for the Rover platform's overall performance, scalability, and reliability. We use observability tools, investigative skills, and data to help our engineering teams deliver a stable, reliable, and robust experience for our owners and sitters. Database Engineer or a Database Reliability Engineer

You will be responsible for ensuring the stability and performance of our PostgreSQL and MySQL environments while building self-service automation tools. You will work closely with our lead Database engineer to manage Rover's tables and end-to-end data flows. You will partner with developers across Rover to review migrations and analyze and optimize database performance. You will work within the SRE team to build your experience in Python and Django for automation and model tuning.

hybrid model (Mondays & Thursdays in our office in Poblenou, Barcelona).

Manage core database operations, including user access, instance scaling, and performance tuning

Lead major and minor database upgrades





Design and test backup strategies to ensure we can restore data quickly with almost no downtime

Use Datadog/Cloudwatch to monitor system health and set up alerting

Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis and resolution

Develop database standards improve site stability and reduce the blast radius of incidents

Build and maintain self-service tools, such as our Automated Data Model Change approval tooling

Design Terraform for management of RDS infrastructure and deployment through Atlantis

Develop automation scripts using Python to assist in Django migration issues and model tuning

experience as a Database Administrator

You have experience managing databases in a cloud native environment (preferably AWS RDS)

You have 4+ years of hands-on experience managing production environments with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL

You have a strong focus on scripting and automation and have proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (eg: Python)

Terraform or CDK)

Familiarity with monitoring tools like Datadog/Cloudwatch or ELK stack

Bonus: Having the skill to use AI tools to assist with coding or monitoring is a great advantage

Bonus: Familiarity with database integration with an ORM, preferably Django





We are proud to be professional software developers building high quality, scalable and supportable solutions

We embrace progressive engineering practices including automated testing and a continuous deployment pipeline

We are serious about the quality of our production operation, and have thorough system, application and user interaction monitoring and anomaly detection

We are passionate about data-driven decision-making

We are friendly, supportive and respectful, and we pay attention to the impact and quality of our work as well as keeping work/life balance

And, dogs in the office. Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout

Private medical insurance

Flexible work hours, sometimes you'll need to be in at certain times, but on the whole, we're pretty versátil when it comes to managing workload and time

Regular team activities, events, game nights, and more

Dog-friendly office

Additionally, Rover offers a long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout and benefits to full-time employees.

The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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📌 Database Administrator AWS (Laza)
🏢 Rover.Com
📍 Laza